53
Metascore
16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Total FilmJames MottramTotal FilmJames MottramFascinating story, flawed telling.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawViceroy’s House is no very profound work, but it is a nimble and watchable period drama.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonChadha has distilled a fascinating and epic true story into a starchy, stuffy, sanitized period piece that never fully engages on an emotional or educational level.
- 40Time Out LondonDave CalhounTime Out LondonDave CalhounAt the human level, this is shallow, and Chadha clumsily fuses political drama with romantic melodrama.
- 38Slant MagazineJake ColeSlant MagazineJake ColeThe only thing that offsets the film's self-negating revisionism are the scenes involving Gillian Anderson vicereine.
- 20TheWrapInkoo KangTheWrapInkoo KangDirector Gurinder Chadha (“It’s a Wonderful Afterlife,” “Bend It Like Beckham”) attempts to explore the cataclysmic human costs of the Partition without humanizing any of the Indian characters. And so we’re offered, on the 70th anniversary of the Partition (give or take a couple of weeks), another film about how brown suffering makes nice white people sad.